Dude your vids are so amazing to me! I enjoy watching them. Here's my story! My ex-wife's dad had equipment and cleared land off. I actually worked with him for a long time running various pieces of equipment. I enjoyed running the machines and learning to run the machines. I got quite good on the Ford 555D 4wd that he had. This became my fav piece of equipment to run. I actually dug a small pond with this tractor and moved all the dirt out with a International front end loader. Long story short after divorce I have not ran any machines since then. I actually went to school and earned my Tool & Die degree and have been doing this for the last several years. I never operated the trackhoe I always wanted too but never got a chance to do that You guys are very talented and I love watching you master these machines. Keep the vids coming and I assure you I will be watching! Sorry such a long comment.
Very nice again two machines and two massive trees, nice job with the 220 and 160, this kind of working no stumps with roots, efficiënt way of working 👌👍😎
Chris, I don't know if you saw it or not, but at :46 you can see the haul truck parked 20 feet from the tree. Kind of a no brainer here. Furthermore, if you had to do it the way that you chose to, it would have made the drag easier to scrape all the dirt from the root ball beforehand.
That first one looked like you tore down the big old Troll Tree from Ernest Scared Stupid. I would keep some milk in the cab just in case something pops up from under the root mound.
An avid watcher of your vids, thanks. May I suggest having another camera outside giving us your point of view and another view of the tree(s) falling down. A little bit of editing but a more exciting vid IMHO.
Can I ask do you have tree preservation orders on your tree in your part of the land we have to ask permission to take down any tree from our council ?🇬🇧great vids by the way whooooooosh lol
You produce very good videos with your big machines and entertaining talk. An English girl makes videos with only background music driving a lot smaller "rubber duck" (excavator on wheels) but very interesting to see what you can do with it. She is extraordinary skillful. You can find her on TH-cam as Duckgirl 86, if you not already seen her videos. Worth a look anyhow. Have a good weekend! // Hazze, Sweden
The good-for-(almost)-nothing hackberry tree By Kevin J. Cook POSTED: 08/29/2012 06:37:20 PM MDT Few trees hide so well in plain sight as does the hackberry. A devout loner, it grows here and there but forms no distinctive treelands. It forms no groves as does quaking aspen in the Rocky Mountains. It forms no savannahs as does eastern cottonwood on the Great Plains, no forests as do the oaks of the Midwest. Hackberry just grows as the odd individual scattered among other trees. Each is easily lost in the camaraderie of crack willows and boxelders. The eye skips over them as just other trees, part of the background greenery. ADVERTISING If You Go What: Noontime Nature lecture "Hackberry Lodge." When: Noon Tuesday, Sept. 4. Where: Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland. Info: The free noontime program is sponsored by Friends of the Loveland Library. Obscure identity and routine disregard have long been hallmarks of the hackberries. They produce no wood suited for polo and croquet balls as does willow nor for golf club heads as does persimmon. Hackberry wood does not make great tool handles as does hickory or baseball bats as does ash. No one uses hackberry wood to make wine barrels, whisky casks or fine hardwood furniture. Mostly, people cut down hackberries just to get rid of them. Occasionally, the wood is claimed for crates or pallets; sometimes it gets burned as firewood. Even the name is an artifact of obliviousness. No records document its origin, but the name "hackberry" is botanically illiterate because the tree's fruit is a drupe not a berry. Being small, round and borne on a plant are not meaningful criteria for what makes a fruit a berry. But the name is embedded in our culture and the alternative "hackdrupe" will never work. Relatedness has likewise plagued the hackberry. Various botanists have labored over its affinities and arrived at such classifications as making the hackberries a family of their own, assigning them to the elm family or, as is most currently done, treating them as part of the family that gives us both the marijuanas and the hops. Specifics about the diversity of this family differ among information sources. The marijuanas may include as few as one species or as many as three. Similarly, the hops may be regarded as two species or as five. Traditionally, "hop" was the name given to the parent plant and "hops" were the fruit clusters harvested for their contribution to brewing beers. This distinction has been nearly lost in contemporary usage. The hackberries number about 100 species, none of which is either smoked or drunk for the recreational dysfunction of the brain. Mostly, they please the eye when they are planted in rows along city streets. Seven hackberry species now grow wild in North America, one of them exotic. A like number of species from Asia grow as ornamental trees in parks and gardens. Two hackberry species -- common hackberry and sugarberry -- grow wild in Colorado; and though they can be invisible to people, they are well used by wildlife as diverse as butterflies and bears. For them a hackberry in a ravine is like a lodge in a forest. Kevin J. Cook is a freelance writer and naturalist based in Loveland. His Wildlife Window column appears in the Reporter-Herald every Thursday.
You forgot to do my favorite part Chris. You forgot to pick on Logger Wade as you knocked over the tree. Also who told that tree it could go into beast mode and put up a fight with the Excavator?
Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the common hackberry, is a large deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, sugarberry, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry.
Tax evasion legal and proper. Currently the farm doesn't meet minimum acreage for farm ground rate evaluation so he is paying the full tilt crazy residential rate.
I’m sure you thought of this, but why not have each of you on both sides down by the truck and you both pick it up at the trunk and track down that way? Seemed like it’d be easier than dragging by the roots
Do u not r have u not ever thought bout takein some of the hard wood u take down and cuttin it up and bustin it and settin up ricks and cords on your place and sellin it for fire wood 🔥
Correction: the only thing those damn trees are good for is a loafing spot for cattle! Haha we’ve got hackberries here too and that’s the only reason they still stand.
Ok...I know not to work over the drive gear...but wondering when you turn the cab around does it change your peddles...front still front..? no expert on the machine at all. ..
pedals unaffected by direction of cab, forward is still towards the idler, reverse towards the sprockets, can be confusing at first, but ya get used to it
Why is it not chopped up for firewood or chip for an out for the ground basically going to a decomposer or something compasses I don't understand why you guys just throw it behind so it doesn't. Clearing the land it's just pushing it somewhere else
Why don't you guys get rid of the stuff that you guys use and mulch it or whatever or chip it why do you guys bury it and throw it in a bush somewhere this make any sense when it comes to clearing all you guys do is hide it from the land it still on it and it's not doing any good by throwing it behind it it has to be clean later
ralphsterz - if you're worried about CO2 to O2 conversion just plant some industrial hemp. It converts CO2 to O2 3 times quicker than any other vegetative matter. 4.1 times more biomass per acre than than trees. You can make paper which is 2 times stronger and 7 times less toxic to the environment. So cry me a river, chop down some trees build yourself a bridge, and cross over to the other side.
Great team work with you and Tim, nice to see.
Chris, hours and hours of enjoyment, thank you for your videos.
Dude your vids are so amazing to me! I enjoy watching them. Here's my story! My ex-wife's dad had equipment and cleared land off. I actually worked with him for a long time running various pieces of equipment. I enjoyed running the machines and learning to run the machines. I got quite good on the Ford 555D 4wd that he had. This became my fav piece of equipment to run. I actually dug a small pond with this tractor and moved all the dirt out with a International front end loader. Long story short after divorce I have not ran any machines since then. I actually went to school and earned my Tool & Die degree and have been doing this for the last several years. I never operated the trackhoe I always wanted too but never got a chance to do that You guys are very talented and I love watching you master these machines. Keep the vids coming and I assure you I will be watching! Sorry such a long comment.
Yes, Chris, KEEP the sound effects. They're better than the music we hear on some channels. But the real music is the sound of machinery at work.
Very nice again two machines and two massive trees, nice job with the 220 and 160, this kind of working no stumps with roots, efficiënt way of working 👌👍😎
No matter what Chris does sound effects jokes it a blast to watch his videos thanks letsdig18
Nicely done. Thanks for the video.
I like how he says, 'figgered'. It reminds me of my dad.
That was fun to watch. Great teamwork.
Those trees would be fun to cut up with your MS462. I have the MS440 with a 30 inch bar and love it!
Hackberry is actually fairly hard wood. Quite heavy and dense here in Illinois. Doesn't burn too bad either.
Yes Sir...Your sound effects are right up there with that Michael Wilson character from the Police Academy movie! Top Shelf Stuff!
Chris, I don't know if you saw it or not, but at :46 you can see the haul truck parked 20 feet from the tree. Kind of a no brainer here. Furthermore, if you had to do it the way that you chose to, it would have made the drag easier to scrape all the dirt from the root ball beforehand.
Great video
You needed wade and his kitty cat there to knock it over! 😊
Don’t you know chris you will never do it right for everyone 👍
my way!
Hey Chris, nice to see 2 machines working together. Have you considered getting the roots in the dumptruck and drag it or was it too big?
That first one looked like you tore down the big old Troll Tree from Ernest Scared Stupid. I would keep some milk in the cab just in case something pops up from under the root mound.
An avid watcher of your vids, thanks. May I suggest having another camera outside giving us your point of view and another view of the tree(s) falling down. A little bit of editing but a more exciting vid IMHO.
That is a Hackberry! Very beautiful 250E your uncle purchased. Happy for you guys. I'm sure that will fit into the fleet very nicely.
Optical illusion, couldn’t tell if you were dragging the tree or if machine was getting pulled back into it.
On some of the clear outs could you do a drone fly over before and after?
Can I ask do you have tree preservation orders on your tree in your part of the land we have to ask permission to take down any tree from our council ?🇬🇧great vids by the way whooooooosh lol
"push it off into the woods"
...some say those trees are still there!
Curious...Why do they call it a "sweet gum tree"?
You produce very good videos with your big machines and entertaining talk. An English girl makes videos with only background music driving a lot smaller "rubber duck" (excavator on wheels) but very interesting to see what you can do with it. She is extraordinary skillful. You can find her on TH-cam as Duckgirl 86, if you not already seen her videos. Worth a look anyhow. Have a good weekend! // Hazze, Sweden
I got an excavator caterpillar and John Deere really nice but your first try will be hard until you get used to it
‘Beaverwood’ hahaha !
Nice teamwork! ....13
are ya gona tint the windows on the 250 an 160 as well?
See Logger Wade, that is how it is done LOL
The good-for-(almost)-nothing hackberry tree
By Kevin J. Cook
POSTED: 08/29/2012 06:37:20 PM MDT
Few trees hide so well in plain sight as does the hackberry.
A devout loner, it grows here and there but forms no distinctive treelands. It forms no groves as does quaking aspen in the Rocky Mountains. It forms no savannahs as does eastern cottonwood on the Great Plains, no forests as do the oaks of the Midwest.
Hackberry just grows as the odd individual scattered among other trees. Each is easily lost in the camaraderie of crack willows and boxelders. The eye skips over them as just other trees, part of the background greenery.
ADVERTISING
If You Go
What: Noontime Nature lecture "Hackberry Lodge."
When: Noon Tuesday, Sept. 4.
Where: Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland.
Info: The free noontime program is sponsored by Friends of the Loveland Library.
Obscure identity and routine disregard have long been hallmarks of the hackberries.
They produce no wood suited for polo and croquet balls as does willow nor for golf club heads as does persimmon. Hackberry wood does not make great tool handles as does hickory or baseball bats as does ash. No one uses hackberry wood to make wine barrels, whisky casks or fine hardwood furniture.
Mostly, people cut down hackberries just to get rid of them. Occasionally, the wood is claimed for crates or pallets; sometimes it gets burned as firewood.
Even the name is an artifact of obliviousness. No records document its origin, but the name "hackberry" is botanically illiterate because the tree's fruit is a drupe not a berry. Being small, round and borne on a plant are not meaningful criteria for what makes a fruit a berry. But the name is embedded in our culture and the alternative "hackdrupe" will never work.
Relatedness has likewise plagued the hackberry. Various botanists have labored over its affinities and arrived at such classifications as making the hackberries a family of their own, assigning them to the elm family or, as is most currently done, treating them as part of the family that gives us both the marijuanas and the hops.
Specifics about the diversity of this family differ among information sources. The marijuanas may include as few as one species or as many as three. Similarly, the hops may be regarded as two species or as five.
Traditionally, "hop" was the name given to the parent plant and "hops" were the fruit clusters harvested for their contribution to brewing beers. This distinction has been nearly lost in contemporary usage.
The hackberries number about 100 species, none of which is either smoked or drunk for the recreational dysfunction of the brain. Mostly, they please the eye when they are planted in rows along city streets.
Seven hackberry species now grow wild in North America, one of them exotic. A like number of species from Asia grow as ornamental trees in parks and gardens.
Two hackberry species -- common hackberry and sugarberry -- grow wild in Colorado; and though they can be invisible to people, they are well used by wildlife as diverse as butterflies and bears. For them a hackberry in a ravine is like a lodge in a forest.
Kevin J. Cook is a freelance writer and naturalist based in Loveland. His Wildlife Window column appears in the Reporter-Herald every Thursday.
Now that's some good teamwork right there!
Do a shop walk around of your machines and trucks
You forgot to do my favorite part Chris. You forgot to pick on Logger Wade as you knocked over the tree. Also who told that tree it could go into beast mode and put up a fight with the Excavator?
Teamwork, for the win!
I bet these guys swept a lot of stuff under the couch in the bed even the rug when Mumsy wasn't looking
how meany machines do you have Chris
Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the common hackberry, is a large deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, sugarberry, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry.
I've never operated heavy equipment........... so just asking wouldn't mirrors mounted on the cab help to see what is behind you ?
ernie stewart there are but they can't see directly behind you because of the counter weight
Is there a reason you don't use CBs?
I love watching someone operate heavy equipment. Do you own your equipment or do you work for someone else?
An excavator can do just about anything, I bet it could even pluck the feathers off a chicken.
What horsepower does this excavator make at the bucket
I know some serious work is about to happen when I see you have work boots on in the cab!! LOL
What's the land going to be used for?
Tax evasion legal and proper. Currently the farm doesn't meet minimum acreage for farm ground rate evaluation so he is paying the full tilt crazy residential rate.
But there's no soil, not even a minimum amount, what little there was went with the initial clearance.
I always found if the tree won't go in one direction I always push it 180) in the other. works every time.
Funny way to grade the field.
Will you be tinting your new excavator
Brother Wade has a 358* cam . Just sayin ! 🇺🇸💪
It’s time for some cb radios in those machines.
they are very good for fire wood. if you were close to here, I would love to get it. But I am certain that you are to far for it to be practical.
I’m sure you thought of this, but why not have each of you on both sides down by the truck and you both pick it up at the trunk and track down that way? Seemed like it’d be easier than dragging by the roots
it wouldnt have picked it up
Chris what are your thoughts on going to the Paul Bunyan show this year ?
Are we there yet
If that first tree was hack berry you can cut some very interesting lumber out of it
Man,I wish I had even a mini Volvo with hydraulic thumb for doing firewood,nice for brush, loading deliveries,many different uses,some day hopefully
Is it almost time to go back and build the big pond at the place u stumped a month or so ago? Where the swamp was on top of the hill.
Sweet gum,,, good for nothing is right.
Obviously this tree is not worth milling for timber.
Now the second is down and good video man .
OMG Who dug around that 2nd tree ?
They are paying more down here for sweet gum pulp chips than for pine.
Think you're gonna have to move the camera. Getting tuff to see
Do you guys use walkie talkies, do those fancy machines have like a Bluetooth speaker... How do u communicate?
How can I get Closed Captions on your videos?
Bet a cat 385 would take them down real quick
Ty Chris
Did you say Bush when you pushed that tree over? Because for some reason now I want a Beer.
Thanks Chris,thery Are some big trees 🖒
Looks like it's good for a treehouse can't be all not useful
Chris you need to catch up with Wade and show him how to pull stumps, and in turn he can show you how to scratch up machines.
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we do like your sound affects
Dragging that tree is one way of covering your tracks.
how come both of yall didnt get on one side of it and picked it up and carry it
the tinted windows are awesome now
instead of beating up the equipment, a chainsaw and a couple cuts would of made moving those trees a lot easier!
Either way he still has to take the root out so how about it just goes with the tree
I was thinking the same thing.
grimthenoble for you he spent a lot of money of nice machines with air conditioning why not use them plus ITS MORE FUN USING A MACHINE FOR ANY JOB
I would have done the same thing Chris did
His haul truck was there cut it up load it up haul it
Do u not r have u not ever thought bout takein some of the hard wood u take down and cuttin it up and bustin it and settin up ricks and cords on your place and sellin it for fire wood 🔥
Steven Walls this is a trash tree, they haul the good ones to a mill already
@@DruFishing I didin say anything bout mill wood I was askin bout usein wood for FIRE WOOD already
Steven Walls firewood is nearly worthless where they live.
They only get snow 2 to 4 days a year there. They don't heat with wood.
Maybe could have tried to load the rootball into the haul truck to move it easier
Damn your cab is so dark you got to put your camera outside now.
Stevey can give some help with the din din.
Need a d 10 dozer
Wouldn't it be nice to have a little bit bigger machine for stuff like this oh wait....
Too bad you didn’t have the 250
My way is right don’t see any of them on you tube doing it there way
Don’t know why but this video was stressful
I agree, Wish I'd have had some gum to chew on while watching this. LOL
Correction: the only thing those damn trees are good for is a loafing spot for cattle! Haha we’ve got hackberries here too and that’s the only reason they still stand.
I thought the Indians boiled the bark for wound care??? Wade could use a gallon or so!!!
I think just cutting the tree into a few pieces and loading the rock truck would have been quicker and wasted less fuel.
would have took more time and time is money when its Friday at qutting time!
It would have been easier and cheaper to just cut the damn thing into Manageable pieces
PMPC Mining but would have taken longer and ya gotta pay for that. This way avoids all that.
Sweet gum are beautiful trees with wonderful shade. Just don't plant one in your front yard!
Ok...I know not to work over the drive gear...but wondering when you turn the cab around does it change your peddles...front still front..? no expert on the machine at all. ..
pedals unaffected by direction of cab, forward is still towards the idler, reverse towards the sprockets, can be confusing at first, but ya get used to it
Uh oh, I think logger wade can do better with a skidder right here ole buddy..
6 saw cuts and chucked it into the haul truck would of been quicker and not hard on every thing
Cashless
Why is it not chopped up for firewood or chip for an out for the ground basically going to a decomposer or something compasses I don't understand why you guys just throw it behind so it doesn't. Clearing the land it's just pushing it somewhere else
"Sweet gum tree good for nothin"..except extracting CO2 and putting oxygen into the air for you to breath. :)
I just love these ignorant comments like this. Clear display of no knowledge of how the Worlds oxygen is replenished.
You disagree with my comment that trees extract CO2 from the atmosphere and exude oxygen back into it?
Why don't you guys get rid of the stuff that you guys use and mulch it or whatever or chip it why do you guys bury it and throw it in a bush somewhere this make any sense when it comes to clearing all you guys do is hide it from the land it still on it and it's not doing any good by throwing it behind it it has to be clean later
James Ledesma not in the tree or clearing business are you ? Didn't think so fucktard, it's called profit
First..
Good for nothing tree except for converting CO2 to O2, then again big Don says there's no such thing as climate change 😂
TRENTEN GREGORY let me guess, you're a yank and couldn't give a fuck about anyone else in the world.
Unless you were joking 😙
take down a tree so crops can be planted for use to eat. leave a tree so we cant breathe.... its a glass half full situation lol
Don't worry about what Don says worry about you're freedom being flushed down your drains .
ralphsterz - if you're worried about CO2 to O2 conversion just plant some industrial hemp. It converts CO2 to O2 3 times quicker than any other vegetative matter. 4.1 times more biomass per acre than than trees. You can make paper which is 2 times stronger and 7 times less toxic to the environment. So cry me a river, chop down some trees build yourself a bridge, and cross over to the other side.